Dr. Jack Wheeler
Chapter Thirty-Four: LA MALINCHE
Here at long last is the final chapter of The Jade Steps. I could not understand why I just couldn't seem to finish it - until I realized that I didn't want to let Malinali - known to history as La Malinche (lah-mah-lin-chay) - and her incredible story go. Now I have. Her saga is one of the more extraordinary in all history. Now it is complete - save for an Epilogue, which explains why it is so critically important for the truth of her story be known. So it's worth re-emphasizing again that The Jade Steps is a true story. Every principal event described actually happened, every named person really lived and had that name. It all happened almost 500 years ago, but it still remains the cause of the civil war within Mexico's soul. Mexico will never rise out of the Third World and overcome its inferiority complex towards America until this spiritual wound is healed. That is the purpose of this book.] The Jade Steps Chapter Thirty-Four: La Malinche Malinali sat on the roof of her home, serenely looking out upon the sunlit waters of Lake Texcoco. Cortez had the home built for her, here in Coyoacan, next to the palace of the former King of Coyoacan that he was using as his headquarters to manage the growing empire of New Spain. It was cool here, with the breeze coming off the lake, and the shade of the awnings and all the plants Cortez had brought up to the roof to make it a garden. It was peaceful and quiet - which is what she appreciated the most. Almost a year had passed since the fall of Tenochtitlan, the capture of Cuauhtémoc, and the death of the Aztec Empire. As she looked back upon all that had happened since, that day of what the Spaniards called August 13 [1521. It is now mid-June, 1522.] It seemed like just a day before yet so long ago.
HALF-FULL REPORT 08/28/09
We are told that we must say something good about the recently dead. OK, here goes. Ted Kennedy is dead. Good. When his terminal brain cancer was announced in May 2008, the HFR commented thusly, for it is worth repeating now:
The HFR's goblet is raised this week in sympathy to this young lady and not to her murderer. She is Mary Jo Kopechne. Her death at the hands of a drunk Ted Kennedy served one purpose for which America must be forever grateful: it prevented his ever being elected President of the United States... The HFR goblet contains no mawkish, treacly, fawning oleaginous encomiums to a man who has done more objective damage to his country than any American alive today.The HFR does not gloat upon the pain and suffering of any fellow human being - but nonetheless raises a full glass of gratitude that he will soon no longer be in the Senate and in a position to do further damage to America.Of course, the Zerocrats are now using his death to exactly that: further damage to America. That the Democrat Party could lionize this evil anti-American, so personally revolting the London Daily Mail's obituary of him is entitled "The Senator of Sleaze," explains the pit of irretrievable immorality into which it has sunk.
RECONQUISTA
Santiago de Compostela. If you want to feel Christianity, feel it in your bones, feel it resonate with history, feel its promise for the future, here is where you come. Sant Iago - St. James - is the patron saint of Spain, and here is where the faithful believe he is buried. For over a thousand years, peregriños, pilgrims, have followed the Way of St. James from all corners of Europe, over the Pyrenees, and across northern Spain to its northwestern corner in a region called Galicia. Their goal is the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, which houses the tomb of Christ's Disciple. As it has been for centuries, so it is now. Every day sees swarms of peregriños arrive, having completed their pilgrimage, flooding streets of the ancient city, filling up the cathedral to worship and pray. Close to 200,000 Christians of all ages will walk to Santiago de Compostela this year, and more are expected next year. They come to pay homage to the saint known as Santiago Matamoros - St. James the Moor-Killer - whose images of killing Moslems are here for all to see. St. James is the savior of Spain from Islam. He is the patron saint of the Reconquista.
TREASON AND TED KENNEDY
In honor of the Mary Jo Kopechne Memorial Brain Tumor completing its task, here is Herb Rommerstein's exposé of Ted Kennedy's traitorous collaboration with the Soviet KGB, originally published in Human Events in December 2003. Following Mr. Romerstein's article is the full text of the letter he references from KGB head Viktor Chebrikov to Soviet leader Yuri Andropov regarding Mr. Kennedy's collaboration with the KGB. Regarding his recent hysterical attack on President Bush, it is not unusual for Sen. Kennedy to attack an American president and give aid and comfort to our country's enemies. There are some important reports found in Soviet archives, after the collapse of the communist dictatorship, that provide an interesting insight into the character of the senior Senator from Massachusetts.
THE CONSEQUENCES OF A HUG-AND-APPEASEMENT FOREIGN POLICY
In Iraq on Monday (8/24), Islamist terrorists staged massive suicide bombings in Baghdad. Over a hundred Iraqis died, with more than a thousand wounded. The foreign and finance ministries lie in rubble. The Iraqi government is reeling. Our president went to the beach. In Afghanistan, the Taliban crippled the national elections so severely that the eventual "winner" won't have much of a mandate. Despite madcap ballot-box stuffing, the final tally will probably show that less than half of the eligible population voted -- fewer than one in five in the crucial south. On Sunday (8/23), Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, admitted that the Afghan situation is "serious and deteriorating." That's what happens when, instead of killing our enemies, we try hugs.
HALF-FULL REPORT 08/21/09
There's something in Guinness that enables the Irish to be preternaturally perceptive. That's why I turned to the HFR's resident Irishman, Buck O'Fama from County Cork, for an answer to a weird mystery. "Hey, Buck!" I asked. "What the heck does ‘all wee-weed up' mean?" After a long contemplative sip of Guinness, Buck observed, "Well, we know the lad's a stoner, right? A midnight toker. It's South Chicago street slang for being ‘all f#&!d up' or sky-high on weed. But the President can't publicly say: ‘There is something about August going into September where everybody in Washington gets all f#&!d up...' so he substitutes ‘all wee-weed up' trying to be so cute-clever-cool funny." Buck had another sip. "Yep, this one's a classic. Everyone is going to be saying his presidency is what's wee-weed up. For the truth is, he's really wee-weed himself."
WHEN WILL HUGO CHAVEZ BE TAKEN OUT?
In the summer of 2001, I was the keynote speaker at an international business conference in Cartagena, Colombia. Frankly, what I said up at the podium I don't recall. What was memorable was the private conversation I had with the collection of Venezuelan business leaders attending the conference. "As someone who helped bring down the Soviet Union," they asked me, "could you tell us what can we do to bring down Hugo Chavez?" I told them there was one and only one answer to their question, there was no other. He gives you, I explained, "absolutely no other alternative. This is his choice, for he will not give up power any other way. Your choice, then, is to accept his dictatorship or eliminate it by eliminating him. Either-or." But such either-ors do not consider third possibilities, and now, eight years later, there might be one.
HALF-FULL REPORT 08/14/09
A buddy of mine, whenever you'd ask how he was, would answer, "If I felt any better, I'd faint." I suspect lots of TTPers are feeling so good this week they're on the point of passing out. Let's all enjoy this while we can. For maybe the Zerocrats will capitulate in the face of the first inkling of a Second American Revolution - for inklings are only what has begun. But we must never forget that they are fascists for whom the aggrandizement of power is their life's purpose. And we must expect them to act accordingly. Lock and load. That said, let's start the fun with the most amazing presidential gaffe of modern times, leaving any of George W. Bush's parsecs behind... ...Here's a question to ask a Congressman at a town hall: why is he focusing on health care at all? Why the gargantuan diversion away from what their total focus should be on, jobs and the economy? Unemployment is rocketing up into double digits, foreclosures are exploding, retail sales are crashing, the economy is imploding, the federal deficit for this year is $1.27 trillion and climbing - and these guys are passionate not about doing whatever it takes to fix this but health insurance and carbon caps? ...Oh, by the way, who knew Bernie Madoff was Chinese?
2010 SENATE SITREP
Things are suddenly going so badly for the Zerocrats now that the GOP has started to think "victory" in 2010. But that's for the House, where anything close to the Pubs' 52-seat gain in 1994 would get their majority back. What about the Senate? November 2010 is a long ways away, but not that far for a "situation report" regarding the GOP's chances for retaking the Senate. Things not only can but undoubtedly will change drastically over the coming months, but here's what and who to keep your eye on now. With Minnesota's embarrassment, Al "Diapers" Franken, giving the Dems 60 seats and the Pubs 40, it will take a massive switch of 11 seats for the latter to pull it off. Switches of this magnitude are rare, but they do occur. In 1958, the Dems gained a net 16 seats, while in 1980, the Pubs gained 12. Both resulted in shifts of majority status. Other years of large switches were 1994 with the Pubs up 8, and last year, 2008, with the Dems up 8 plus Specter's defection for a net of up 9. Next year, 36 seats are at stake, evenly split at 18 each between R's & D's. Let's dispense with the ones that seem now clearly safe.
ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION AND THE DECONSTRUCTION OF CALIFORNIA
The financial unraveling of California currently on display in Sacramento has prompted a long overdue debate on what caused the seeming demise of the once most prosperous state of the union. Outrageous retirement and health care demands on the taxpayer by public employees, and sabotaging the economy through ever more onerous regulations and pie-in-the-sky environmental fantasies like renewable energy, have run against the limits of abuse the system can take and must be sharply scaled down one way or another if California is to remain economically viable. Unfortunately, there is yet another problem that presents an even greater systemic threat to California, even if the ones above were to be somehow fixed. A problem known to all that neither the state's mercenary political establishment nor its politically correct media dare even mention. It is the irreparable damage to California's human capital potential that nearly 30 years of unrestrained illegal immigration has done.
WILL OBAMA GO TO OKLAHOMA?
It's starting to feel like 1995 all over again. Public anger against the Democrats and the Clintons was rising to the boiling point - and suddenly was snuffed out when the Oklahoma Federal Building was bombed by a "right-wing terrorist." Remember? "It's only a matter of time" before that happens again, federal officials are now warning in major media stories. Yes, it is only a matter of time - until Zero and his Chicago thugs perpetrate some heinous terrorist act for which they and the media can blame "anti-government un-American right-wing hate groups ." Don't think that Nancy Pelosi's accusation of "un-American mobs" of "angry right-wing" protestors at town halls "waving swastikas" was an emotional outburst. It was setting the stage. Folks, we are being set up. Just like in 1995.
TEN QUESTIONS POLITICIANS WON’T ANSWER
The past week's debate about health care has shown that in Washington the only things more stubborn than facts are politicians who evade them. In spite of a torrent of independent analyses showing that the so-called health-care "reform" bills moving through Congress will dramatically increase the deficit and cause millions of Americans to lose their health insurance, the politicians leading the effort have steadfastly refused to consider that their ideas and policies, rather than the character of their critics, may be flawed. At the same time, the politicians writing the bill still refuse to answer basic questions about how it will be paid for and how it will affect patients. Individual Americans should view the month of August as their best, and perhaps final, opportunity to alter the health-care bills before Congress reconvenes in September. Citizens should ask hard questions without having their motives questioned. I expect such questions at my town-hall meetings. After all, the greater threat to freedom and liberty is not an informed citizenry but an irresponsible, elitist, and evasive political class that refuses to answer hard questions and make tough choices. While I have confidence in the American people to come up with their own probing questions, let me suggest a few questions that my own colleagues have been loath to answer:
HALF-FULL REPORT 08/07/09
Here's a shocker. The HFR, after checking to make sure its glass is really just half-full, raises it this week to... this is not easy, how did this glass get so heavy?... to... take a deep breath... to Hillary Clinton. How is that possible? Two words: Eritrea and Honduras. *** Oh, what about that other Clinton? The one hogging the headlines in Norkland? Was there some sinister sellout, some secret deal Slick made with the Norks to the grave detriment of his country? The answer is no. *** The more the HFR sees these town hall protests escalate, the more it thinks that concern over ZeroCare is just the proximate cause. The real underlying cause is anger over how their country (and in many cases themselves personally as voters) was suckered into electing Zero in the first place. And the more the HFR sees how this anger is escalating, the more it looks at Zero as LBJ redux, only faster. For the anger is not going away until Zero does. It took 3 years to get rid of Lyndon Johnson (1/65 to 3/68 when he announced he wouldn't run again, and he coasted from then on). The anger today, however, will not wait that long, not even close.
LOSING COOL
Until very recently, the embodiment of cool, coolness clothed in human flesh - especially for the young - has been President Zero. So much so that the latest lexicon of slang terms, published by the Linguistics Department of UCLA this month, lists "obama" as a slang term meaning "cool." "That's so obama" according to the dictionary means "That's so cool." Not any more. That's so yesterday. Zero is no longer cool. Proof is how completely off-the-charts viral the Joker poster of Zero has gone in the last few days. Google "obama" + "joker" today (8/06) and you get over 11 million hits. Two days ago it was 6.5 million. Zazzle now lists 2,461 "Joker Obama Gifts" for sale, like t-shirts and mugs. People are printing and posting them up in public places all over the country, from LA to Atlanta, from Sioux Falls to George Washington University in DC. The character of The Joker played by Heath Ledger in "The Dark Night" Batman movie (2008) was a genius of pathological evil. (It was an incredibly impressive performance, for which Ledger justifiably won an Academy Award.) To portray Zero as Heath Ledger's Joker, and for that portrayal to go instantly and wildly viral, is a nation-wide recognition that there is something evil in him. And something very, very uncool.
THE ECHOES OF VIETNAM IN AFGHANISTAN
Our troops in Afghanistan are performing heroically, doing everything we ask of them. But we shouldn't ask them to die without a purpose. We're floundering in Afghanistan -- confusing techniques with strategy. Not one senior official, political or military, has explained convincingly why we're still there. Despicable as they are, the Taliban didn't attack our homeland. We're fighting the wrong enemy, in the wrong place, in the wrong way. And sending more troops won't fix it. The Taliban can't defeat us, but we can't win if we set ourselves absurd goals. Is an endless stalemate in a wasteland worth it? My TTP readers know I believe in killing our enemies wherever we can find them. But I don't believe in killing our own troops because our leaders duck fundamental questions.
HALF-FULL REPORT 07/31/09
There's such a cornucopia of delectable items to choose from this week, so where does the HFR begin? How about with the increasing awareness that the corruption within the Democrat Party is so pervasive that the entire party should be RICO'ed? What more perfect case for prosecution under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organization Act could one ask for? The Democrat Party is no longer a political organization - it is a criminal conspiracy... ...Yet the HFR also has a confession this week - it's developing a strange sort of fondness for Joe Biden, like folks have for their crazy uncle in the attic... ...It may go down in history as one of the classic put-downs of Zero. When asked what the president's contribution was to the "beer summit" yesterday (7/30) between police officer James Crowley and Harvard professor Henry Gates at the White House, Crowley said: "He provided the beer." Which prompts me to extend the length of this HFR beyond normal and tell a story.
IT WAS JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS
In 1935, Cole Porter wrote a song for his musical Jubilee. It's been a classic for crooners ever since, from Bing Crosby to Ella Fitzgerald and of course, Frank Sinatra. You've heard it a thousand times. Millions of Americans this week began singing It Was Just One Of Those Things along with FS to express their infatuation with President Zero. Or as Kelly King, a black female officer of the Cambridge Police Department expresses it: "I supported him. I voted for him. I will not again." In late February of 1989, I gave a briefing to a group of Congressional staffers on the impact of the Soviet retreat from Afghanistan (completed on February 15). "The entire Soviet Empire will now begin to unravel," I predicted. "What will stun everybody is the speed of its collapse. This is going to happen fast." Less than nine months later the Berlin Wall fell (on November 9th - formally designated by presidential proclamation as World Freedom Day.) It's been less than nine months since Zero was elected the 44th president of our country - and it's now safe to say that his presidency is disintegrating as fast as the Soviet Union was 20 years ago.
HALF-FULL REPORT 7/24/09
As the HFR goes to press this Friday morning, a Kabuki drama is unfolding on the Honduran-Nicaraguan border. Exiled former president Zelaya is reported by the Miami Herald to be in Esteli, Nicaragua trying to cross into Honduras. Soldiers and opponents of Zelaya have gathered at the Las Manos Honduran border crossing, as well as a few Zelaya supporters. It so happens that I am familiar with the Honduran-Nicaraguan border, having crossed it several times surreptitiously with the Contras in the 80s. This is rough country, and I can assure you Zelaya will not try this as I did, on foot through mountainous jungle. He's not in shape and he's too big and fat for his people to carry. Thus his options are very limited and easy to stymie. He is engaged in nothing more than a media stunt. Zelaya is sinking fast -- even the left-wing Miami Herald admits it. One person we have to thank for this is Senator Jim DeMint (R-SC). Yet who knew Senator Jim DeMint's real name is Arthur Wellesley?
THE ONE WORD TO DESCRIBE OBAMACARE
As a physician who has authored books on preventative health care, I was given the opportunity to be the keynote speaker at a Congressional Dinner at The Capitol Building in Washington last Friday (7/17). The presentation was entitled Health Care Reform, The Power & Profit of Prevention, and I was gratified that it was well received. In preparation for the presentation, I read the latest version of "reform" as authored by The Obama Administration and supported by Speaker Pelosi and Senator Reid. Here is the link to the 1,018 page document: http://edlabor.house.gov/documents/111/pdf/publications/AAHCA-BillText-071409.pdf Let me summarize just a few salient points of the above plan. First: The underlying method of cutting costs throughout the plan is based on rationing and denying care. There is no focus on preventing health care need whatever. The plan's method is the most inhumane and unethical approach to cutting costs I can imagine as a physician.
THE BRAVEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD
On July 30, 1502, on his fourth voyage to what he thought were newly-discovered lands in far eastern Asia, Christopher Columbus (1451-1506), reached an island which he called Guanaja, low-land. Sailing due south, he soon came upon a massive coastline which he knew was no island. He also came upon a massive storm. Racing east in the deep waters along the coast, he reached a cape which provided him protection. "Gracias a Dios!" he exclaimed. "Que hemos salido de estas honduras!" Thanks to God, we have escaped these treacherous depths. On a beach of what his men now called Gracias a Dios Cape, he held a mass to commemorate his salvation, and in a solemn ceremony, claimed the territory and adjacent island for the Kingdom of Spain in the name of his sovereigns, Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castille. Columbus' men named the land Honduras. 507 years later this land is being demonized for its devotion to democracy and freedom. Instead of being applauded for adhering to its democratic laws and avoiding their demise, much of the so-called Free World - the UN, the EU, and the US via the White House - joined with the Communist World led by Chavez and Castro to hysterically denounce Honduras instead. This, folks, is a terrifying wake-up call as to the extent the forces of darkness are gaining strength, and the forces of freedom are cowering in retreat. All of sudden out of nowhere, little Honduras catalyzes this process and becomes a pivot point in the struggle between good and evil on earth. Let's take a look at those who lead the forces of darkness arrayed against Honduras.
HALF-FULL REPORT 07/17/09
It's been busy. Non-stop travel for the past three weeks - driving 2,200 miles in California and Nevada alone - regarding my Achilles Heel Project (to be revealed at the Winning the Revolution Rendezvous in September). On the way, Rebel and I met a lot of wonderful people who love America. I can't resist sharing with you an insight of one of them - a doctor who lives near Palm Springs, California. As a physician, he's very observant of changes in people's dimensions. As a conservative he's noticed something about Mrs. Zero. Based on it, he has devised a scientific formula with intriguing predictive value. He calls it the ACR, which stands for Ass Circumference Ratio. The ACR predicts that Mrs. Zero's derriere will widen or narrow corresponding with how her husband's presidency is failing or succeeding. Notice how it's been expanding lately? That's the ACR at work. At the rate Mr. Zero's popularity ratings are heading towards the basement, it won't be long before Mrs. Zero will be a real porker. Thanks for the tip, Doc.
PHUKET IN AMERICA
Phuket ( the "h" is silent: poo-ket), Thailand, is one of the most paradisiacal places in the world. In December, the weather is as perfect as it gets on earth. The water in the ocean is perfect. The soft sand beach is perfect. The gentle breeze rustling through the palm tress is perfect. The service in the five-star hotels on the beach is perfect, the 90 proof tropical drinks with the pineapple slice and cocktail umbrella are perfect. On December 26, 2004, tourists from a score of countries from around the world were enjoying this perfection. The sky was cloudless, the sea calm and crystal clear. You could not ask for a more beautiful day in paradise. Unbeknownst to them, 500 miles away in the Indian Ocean, 19 miles beneath the surface, a tectonic plate ruptured with such force that the entire planet rang like a bell. It was the largest earthquake ever recorded - 9.3 - and it shook the ocean so violently that a massive tidal wave was soon bearing down upon Phuket. The tourists were enjoying the beach and the sun and the tropical drinks without a care in the world. They had not an inkling of their fate. The tsunami came without warning out of the blue sea, and minutes later 9,000 of them were dead. When I was in Las Vegas this past weekend at the FreedomFest discussed by Richard Rahn, I thought of Phuket.
WINNING THE REVOLUTION RENDEZVOUS
Thanks to TTP general manager Miko, and TTPers like Mitch Tyree, the dates and the deal for the TTP Summer Rendezvous are set. One of the most distinguished hotels in Colonial Williamsburg, the Williamsburg Hospitality House, will host the Winning the Revolution Rendezvous from Friday, September 11 to Sunday, September 13. Colonial Williamsburg recreates the America of Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. Nearby Jamestown is where the settlement of America began in 1607. And close by is Yorktown, where America achieved victory in its War of Independence in 1781. It is an incredibly emotional experience to be at Surrender Field, where the British troops under Lord Cornwallis gave up their arms and surrendered to George Washington while the British band played "The World Turned Upside Down." This is where free America was born, this was where our Revolution was won. What more appropriate place could there be - and what more appropriate date than September 11 weekend - for TTPers to join together and commit to winning our American liberty once again?
WHAT IS WRONG WITH AFGHANISTAN?
Last week, 4,000 US Marines launched a major operation in Helmand, the poppy-queen province in southern Afghanistan. The Marines performed magnificently, reaching their objectives with minimal casualties -- mostly from the 110-degree heat. But something important was missing: Afghans in uniform. A few hundred Afghan players showed up in the backfield. But the village elders saw only American guns. The Marine mission is to provide security for villagers, build trust and instill confidence in the Kabul government. This would all be far easier if the Afghan military and police were competent, trustworthy and present. They're not. What's the problem? Why haven't years of effort and billions of dollars, coupled with our training expertise, forged fully reliable military units and constabularies? The answer lies in...
HALF-FULL REPORT 07/10/09
I love negative numbers. They're so much fun - especially this one: minus 8. The HFR of just over a month ago - 06/05/09 - celebrated Zero finally hitting zero on Scott Rasmussen's Daily Presidential Tracking Poll, when for the first time those who strongly disapprove of him equaled those who strongly approve for a rating of 0. "It won't be long now until they go in the minus column for the Fascist-in-chief and keep heading south. You can follow them daily on Rasmussen's Approval Index History," advised the HFR. For the past two weeks, they've been falling off a cliff so dramatically that yesterday (7/09), Rasmussen's -8 rating was the lead story on Drudge. This morning (7/10) it's -7. No surprise to TTPers. Also no surprise are the explosive riots that started Sunday (7/05) in the Chicoms' colony of East Turkestan, or Xinjiang (zin-john) as they call it.
COMMUNIST DISARMAMENT
Obama went to Moscow desperate for the appearance of a foreign-policy success. He got that illusion -- at a substantial cost to America's security. The series of signing ceremonies in a grand Kremlin hall and the litany of agreements, accords and frameworks implied that the United States benefited from all the fuss. We didn't. We got nothing of real importance. But the government of puppet-master Vladimir Putin (nominally just prime minister) got virtually all it wanted. In Moscow, this was Christmas in July. That's because we just agreed to the disarmament position of the American Communist Party of the 1950s.
THE PALIN POTENTIAL
I'm embarrassed to admit it, but the instant I heard Sarah Palin announcing her resignation from the Alaska governorship, I thought of Richard Nixon. In 1960, he was cheated out of the presidency when Chicago Mayor Richard Daley stuffed enough ballot boxes to give Illinois to Kennedy, and Kennedy's running mate Lyndon Johnson did the same in Texas. In 1962, Nixon ran for governor of California and lost to Democrat Pat Brown by 300,000 votes. His career was finished, and there wasn't a politician nor a pundit in the country who didn't say so. He was washed-up, held no political office, and was under constant attack by a media that reviled him. Yet six years later he was elected president in 1968. How did he do this? The same way Sarah Palin can be elected president in 2012.
HALF-FULL REPORT 07/03/09
On the eve of July 4th, I've discovered I can't do what I've done for the past five years: provide a cheery update for Freedom's Birthday. Yes, the 4th is a time to feel good about America. But our country is in such extraordinary danger - more than any time since the Civil War - that just feeling good and proud doesn't cut it. Especially when the danger is internal, not foreign. This example just appeared in Israeli papers today (7/03): That Zero intends to block any new sanctions on Iran at the upcoming G8 summit next week. Never before in our nation's history have we ever had a president who hated his country, who by his every action sought to weaken its national security, destroy its prosperity, and expand government control over our lives to literally the level of Orwell's 1984. Thus the phrase you'll hear at many a Tea Party tomorrow: "To avoid 1984, you have to go back to 1776."
QUANTUM WEIRDNESS
The great physicist Niels Bohr (1885-1962), who pioneered the study of sub-atomic or quantum physics, was fond of saying, "If someone says that he can think about quantum physics without becoming dizzy, that shows only that he has not understood anything whatever about it." The Alice-in-Wonderland quality of sub-atomic physics is called quantum weirdness. It was in response to such weirdness that Bohr's contemporary scientist J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964) claimed "the Universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose." Today, however, the concept of quantum weirdness seems also to apply to politics in America. Clearly, we are no longer living in a world of normal reality. For the first time in US history, we have a president who hates his own country. A president who is on the side of America's enemies, not on the side of America.
THE VICTORY OF PRESIDENT BUSH IN IRAQ
Our effort in Iraq passed a major milestone this week: Our troops are leaving the cities. Advisers remain in place. Joint patrols will still occur. And our forces will wait nearby to respond to Iraqi calls for support. But the last of the bases and US-only outposts within Iraq's urban centers will be vacated. Terrorists have already begun testing the new security arrangements. Iraqi forces won't always pass with flying colors. Yet this situation seemed a pipe dream not so long ago: Iraq's security forces, serving an elected government, assume primary responsibility for the good order of their own country. It is an extraordinary achievement, the credit for which goes to President George W. Bush.
HALF-FULL REPORT 06/26/09
Naked evil. That's what was on display this week in much of the world - what could be half-full about it? The world's scum are all in support of Ahmadinejad's "election." The Red Chinese, Chavez, Putin, et al, are congratulating the thugs who run Iran on their "exercise of democracy." The world's actual democracies are all a-flutter, trying to decide how to condemn the butchery and kow-tow to the Chicoms and the Kremlin at the same time. Zero doesn't have the guts to take the side of the protestors getting butchered and beat up. What's half-full is that the mullah regime has lost all legitimacy in the eyes of a majority of the Iranian people. This is a regime with no future. It's worth recalling that the revolution replacing the Shah with the Ayatollahs did not occur overnight. The protests started in January of 1978, and succeeded with the Shah fleeing the country in January of 1979. During that year, there were many periods of quiescence, when the protests seemed to vanish and the Shah's rule was deemed secure. Then they would crank up again, and up a notch. So this is a marathon, not a sprint. There is very serious dissention within the mullahs themselves, there is no longer a center of the regime that can hold. The protestors are young, determined, and smart. This is far from over, it has only just begun.
THE COST OF DIVERSITY AT ANNAPOLIS
The Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Gary Roughead announced in Annapolis recently that "diversity is the number one priority" at the Naval Academy, where I have been a Professor of English for 22 years. The Naval Academy superintendent, Vice Adm. Jeffrey Fowler, echoed him. Everyone understands that "diversity" here means nonwhite skins. Fowler insisted recently that we needed to have Annapolis graduates who "looked like" the Fleet, where enlisted people are about 42 percent nonwhite, largely African American and Hispanic. The stunning revelation last week was that the Naval Academy had an incoming class that was "more diverse" than ever before: 35 percent minority. Sounds good, only this comes with a huge price tag. It's taxpayers who bankroll the military. Yet nobody has asked us if we're willing to pay this price. Instead we're being told there is no price to pay at all. If you believe that, you probably also believe in the Tooth Fairy.
THE ZERO RESIGNATION CHALLENGE
To understand how TTP's Jack Kelly used precisely the right word to describe Zero's policy towards Iran, and indeed the entire Zero Presidency - obscene-you should read this horrific eyewitness description of the mullah regime butchery that took place yesterday (6/24). The vice-president of my bank here in DC is Iranian. We have had a running debate about Zero for at least a year because he's a total Zero-worshipper - but he's my friend so we keep it polite. I paid him a visit today to notarize some papers, and we discussed what was happening in Iran. He looked me in the eye and said, "Jack, I have to admit - your were right about Obama. He is an enemy of freedom." There are millions upon millions of Americans, native born and naturalized, that are coming to the same conclusion - and their numbers are growing by the day. The time has come to issue the Zero Resignation Challenge.
TO LIVE OR JUST BE ALIVE – THAT’S THE QUESTION
[An extraordinarily poignant and vividly powerful eyewitness account of the protests for freedom in Tehran yesterday, June 20, by a philosophy professor at Tehran University.] We gather up with my students on Saturdays for a private class. We cook and eat together, then talk of philosophy. This time there was no class. We only tried to keep up our morale. We were very determined but scared. That is how I can describe the most people who came out to attend the demonstration today. After the fierce speech [by Ayatollah Khomenei] at the Friday prayers, we knew that today we would be treated differently. We felt so vulnerable, more than ever, but at the same time were aware of our power, which, no matter how influential it is collectively, would have done little to protect us today. We could only take our bones and flesh to the streets and expose them to batons and bullets. Two different feelings fight inside you without mixing with one another. To live or to just be alive, that's the question.
LOBOTOMIZING OUR ECONOMY
To borrow historian Niall Ferguson's metaphor, if finance is an evolutionary process, then regulation is its intelligent design - which, I would add, is a cognate of faith, not science. Or, to take the observation of former Federal Reserve Governor Frederic Mishkin, if "the financial system (is) the brain of the economy," then, I would suggest, heavy regulation is its lobotomy; while it removes the emotional highs and lows, it also dulls the perception, facility and adroitness. A century ago, medical science had faith in lobotomies. Today, it seems, Washington political science has faith in lobotomizing financial regulation.
HALF-FULL REPORT 06/19/09
Tomorrow's the day, folks. Crunch time in Tehran. You know what happened today: head mullah Ali Khamenei delivered the Friday sermon everyone was waiting for, and he didn't give a fig for freedom. He insisted the June 12 elections were fair and not fraudulent, ordered the protestors to stop demonstrating in any way, and obey their master Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Any opposition rallies are banned, he said, and any attempt to hold one will be put down with armed force. His speech was as hard-line as it could possibly have been. It is 10pm Friday evening in Tehran as I am writing this, and protestors have begun shouting Allahu akbar - their cry of protest - from the rooftops. Their cell calls, emails, and twitters give every indication that they plan to hold enormous rallies tomorrow in straight defiance of Khamenei and the mullah regime. There will be blood tomorrow. But whose?
IRAN JUNE 2009 – AMERICA NOVEMBER 2012
Massive electoral fraud to re-elect a president, massive public protests against the fraud, massive repression by the regime of the protestors - including beatings and killings. That's what's happening in Iran in June 2009. It could also be what will happen in America in November 2012. One of the dots connecting the two is a 74 year-old guy named Gerald Walpin. That's Walpin as in WalpinGate, the emerging scandal over Zero's illegally firing him as Inspector General for the Corporation for National and Community Service and its AmeriCorps program. Don't be fooled into thinking the scandal is Zero's firing Walpin because he had exposed the fraud of Zero's friend, Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson. Johnson is a red herring. Zero, as a master of misdirection, is hoping folks will think he's just trying to protect a friend. The stakes are astronomically higher than that. We no longer live in normal times. We are soon going to be living in revolutionary times, as the people of Iran are now.
OBAMA IS NOT BLACK – HE’S YELLOW
Thirty years ago in Iran, hate-America terrorist-sponsoring Moslem radicals organized a series of protests against the pro-American Shah - and the President of the United States, Jimmy Carter, did and said nothing. Thus they succeeded, and we have been suffering the consequences of that cowardly silence and inaction to this day. Twenty years ago in China, protestors for democracy, so pro-American they made a replica of the Statue of Liberty, gathered in Tiananmen Square to demand an end to Communist tyranny - and the President of the United States, George H. W. Bush, did and said nothing. The Chicoms interpreted Bush's cowardly silence as a green light to crush the protestors, and proceeded to slaughter thousands of them in cold blood, then washed that blood off the stones of Tiananmen, denying to the world that anyone was killed. Thanks to that cowardice, the Chicoms today pose the single gravest military threat in the world to America. Now President Zero is choosing to follow the cowardly footsteps of Jimmy Carter and Bush the Elder, rather than those of Ronald Reagan who got rid of the Soviet Union, and Bush the Younger who got rid of Saddam Hussein. By voting "present" as he has all his life, by not having the courage to publicly and clearly support democracy and freedom for the people of Iran, he has made it blindingly clear that he's not black - he's yellow.
HALF-FULL REPORT 06/12/09
David Letterman certainly settled one thing this week: that the terms "no-class pervert scumbag" and "liberal" are synonymous. Sarah Palin wrote a classy yet scathing response to his depraved jokes about her 14 year-old daughter, but she shouldn't have restrained her husband Todd from responding how he wanted. Like any father, he wanted to punch Letterman out. Todd wanted to issue a public statement saying something like:
"Mr. Letterman, you have insulted my daughter in the most grossly perverted way. I am on my way to New York as you read this to see you. We shall settle this man-to-man, with our fists. Prepare to defend yourself. If you choose not to fight, you will have declared to the world that you are the yellow-bellied coward I know you to be."Letterman would have soiled his metrosexual pink underwear. *** Yet liberals are not the only folks scared to death of Sarah Palin. So are the old bulls of the Republican Party Establishment - which is why they replaced her with Newt Gingrich at their annual Senate-House fundraising dinner Monday night (6/08).
POTEMKIN AMERICA
At dinner at the Cosmos Club here in DC last night, a dear friend of mine who is one of the finest men - and sharpest businessmen - I've ever known, held up a butter knife. "To make this - to make a bottle cap or the side panels of your washing machine, to make any product that requires metal stamping - you need the machine tools my company makes," he explained. "Thousands of businesses of all different kinds all over America are our customers. I'm in touch with all of them, and know how their companies are doing." He sighed. "Jack, that's why I know that our economy is in much, much worse shape than the media is letting on." I gave him a quizzical look. "It's so funny you would say that - because I'll be writing about just that this week. I'll call it Potemkin America." Grigori Alexandrovich Potemkin (1739-1791) was a dashing 23 year-old officer in the Czar's Horse Guards, the elite cavalry unit of the Russian Army, when the Czar's wife donned a Horse Guard uniform and led them in a coup to seize the throne of Russia.